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O My gracious GOD, the only stay and com∣fort of my soul, seeing thy will is, that in all things I should sincerely serve thee, and I, through thy grace, de∣sire nothing more than to do the same. How is it, O my Lord, that I still offend thee; or why fall I so often into my former follies?
Alas, thy Grace is not wanting to me; but my un∣graciousness, and the corru∣ption of my nature, my slip∣periness,
and easiness to of∣fend, my inconstancy in my best resolutions, and my for∣getfulness of my former pur∣poses, is the cause of it.
And for this, once more I humble my soul before thee, beseeching thee to lay aside thy rigour, and not to multi∣ply thy anger according to the measure that I have mul∣tiplied my sins, but rather to remember whereof I am made, that I am as a flower, a wind, a vapour that passeth away, nay I am viler than all this, even weak and sinful dust and ashes.
And thou hast visited and considered me in these my despicable and wretched Principles; O then shew
thy strength in my weakness, thy glory in my infirmities, increase in me daily thy re∣newing grace, and strengthen me against all future tempta∣tions, that I may never start aside again, like a broken bow, but go on from grace to grace, though it be with weak and trembling steps, till I shall appear before the God of Gods in Sion.